Letters From Inside the Prison

The United States Penitentiary of the 21st-century by Jay Goodman In my last few chapters, I’ve talked about a man I met in the United States penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia. And some of the things he’s witnessed in his almost 3 decades in prison. In my last chapter KY told me the story of […]

Payback by Jay Goodman I have been writing about my time in the United States penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia. The insanity of this place in the way it’s run is something most people in our country couldn’t ever imagine. I look at our country and how each state is governed by state and federal

When Is It Going to Change by Jay Goodman I sit in my cell and wonder how on earth can prison systems like the ones I’ve been to still be allowed to exist in our country? Without a doubt it seems to me that corruption is everywhere. From the guards to the ranking officers, all

Cold Blooded Killers by Jay Goodman In my last several chapters I’ve written about the United States Penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia. I’ve talked about a man I met in Kentucky who everyone called KY, and his struggles to survive over the last 28 years. Like I said before, I had hoped after 15 years

U.S.P. Criminal Family by Jay Goodman In my last chapter I had written about meeting a man at the United States penitentiary in Hazleton, West Virginia, who has 28 years in prison. Meeting him was a real eye-opening experience to the reality of the federal prison system and how it operates. I would get many

Murder and Corruption Inside the United States Penitentiary By Jay Goodman As I sit in the United States Penitentiary in Hazleton, West Virginia, I couldn’t help but wonder how the federal government allowed their prison system to get so far out of control. I mean think about my last chapter. Think about how this prison

Death of an Old Gangster By Jay Goodman As I sit here in the United States penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia, I couldn’t help but see and feel the evilness of this place. For the people reading this, I don’t know if you have ever been around someone or a certain place where you could

Misery Mountain by Jay Goodman My first morning at the Hazleton prison was difficult. It seemed that everyone who worked there had an attitude. Hey, are we going to medical? “No.�? Do we get to use the phones? “No.�? Can we get a few sheets of paper in an envelope to write our family? No.

Moving to the Federal Penn by Jay Goodman After two months sitting in this federal correctional center in Youngstown, Ohio, I was told one morning to be ready about 4:00 in the morning the next day, because I was being shipped out to another prison. I went back inside myself walking called my cousin Debbie

  It’s True Times Are Changing By Jay Goodman           We hear this a lot through our lives that “times are changing. But I hear it now more so than I ever heard it in my life. And it is true times are changing.�? The sad thing is it’s not changing for the better. I